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Thursday, September 13, 2012Under court order, Ohio's ballot board adopts new languageBut Republicans say the constitutional amendment is impossible to make conciseby WKSU's STATEHOUSE CORRESPONDENT JO INGLESThis story is part of a special series.

ReporterJo Ingles

In The Region:

The Ohio Ballot Board has changed the wording voters will see Nov. 6th on a plan to overhaul how Ohio draws its political maps. The ballot board acted after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled this week that the original language picked by the board would mislead voters.

Democrats generally back the constitutional amendment to change who draws up the Congressional and legislative maps, and accused Republican members of the board of slanting the language against it. That debate continued at today’s meeting.

Republican board member Keith Faber says it’s impossible to make this issue easy to understand.

“We can either put the complete language or do a summary. But if we do a summary, we can’t get it wrong. But if we do a summary at this point, I fear we will get it wrong because frankly, I didn’t draft the confusing selection process that’s in the constitutional amendment. :20

But Ann Henkener with the group that’s backing the amendment, Voters First, says the board could have used shorter, more concise language, as the Supreme Court did.

“It was very easy for the court to do that. It seemed to be very confusing for the ballot board to be able to do that. It would have been very easy to adopt the court’s language. It was very clear.” :11

The proposal would replace politicians with a citizens board to draw up the the political maps